Helen Joseph: 5

For forty years Helen Joseph dedicated herself single-mindedly to opposing apartheid. Her commitment earned her the ANC's highest award, the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Medal. It also led to a relentless government campaign to silence her, a campaign which ultimately failed - for generations of South Africans, Helen was an inspiration and a symbol of defiance, integrity and courage.

Helen Beatrice May Fennell was born in Sussex, England, in 1905. She graduated from King's College, University of London, in 1927, taught for three years in India, then came to South Africa in 1931, where she met and married Billie Joseph. Her service as an information and welfare officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War, and her subsequent decision to become a social worker, exposed her to some of the realities of South African life.

for more see the ANC website

Harvey Ball: 4

Harvey Ball, the inventor of the smiley face.

Rob Armitage: 3

Eastern Province and South African cricketer Robbie Armitage.

Died of cancer(45), December 2000

Peter Fechter: 2

Peter Fechter (January 14, 1944 – August 17, 1962) was a German bricklayer from East Berlin, who, at the age of eighteen, became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall's border guards.

Colonel Jacob Glen Cuyler: 1

American in the British army, who hanged the rebels at Slagtersnek (all 5, after 4 ropes broke and after a delay of a few hours completed the job)

On 9 March 1816 the remaining five were hanged in public at Van Aardtspos. Four of the nooses broke during the execution due to old ropes being used. The four whose ropes broke, as well as the public, pleaded for their lives but Cuyler ordered that they be hanged a second time and they were hanged one by one. The names of the five who were hanged were Hendrik Prinsloo, Stephanus Bothma, Abraham Bothma, Cornelius Faber and Theunis de Klerk.[4][5] The hanging of these five caused deep resentment towards the British by the Boers.

Cuyler together with Lord Charles Somerset persuaded the British Parliament to vote funds to finance the settlement of parties of British settlers in order to strengthen the frontier. In 1820 numbers of English and Scots arrived. The Scots were settled in the Baviaans River Mountains, on land confiscated from the Slagtersnek rebels while the English were settled in the Albany district to the south.